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by ludicity 4y ago
That's the funny thing - as I mentioned, it's easy to feel bad complaining because these jobs were objectively quite cushy. But you're absolutely right, giving these things up and doing something that matters entails actual s
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by ludicity 4y ago
Amen, it's so rough. I couldn't understand why my health deteriorated over Covid, because surely not having to really do any work from 9-5 was a good thing! Turns out it's like pumping a mild poison straight into your brain
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by ludicity 4y ago
One of the first jobs I was offered was for a startup in SEA, which I didn't mention in the article. It was an AI powered trading platform, and they revealed in the interview that they were going to launch without AI and just do all th
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by ludicity 4y ago
Depends massively on the company! I am indeed one of the nerds that goes to bat for fixing data quality issues, but it takes long enough that I frequently look at these projects and think: "It might take the majority of my working life
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by ludicity 4y ago
Yeah, I haven't seen anyone do this firsthand, but all my social intuition tells me that you can't challenge the social reality being presented. You can yell at one manager, call his team incompetent, so on (all deeply inadvisable
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by ludicity 4y ago
As someone figuring life out (and also the OP), just wanted to say that I really appreciate you taking the time to write this. Advice is always great. For the most part, this is largely what I've been doing after a lot of analysis, tho
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by ludicity 4y ago
Very true! The times when I've been happy at work have frequently been when I've failed at basically everything in my job description for the week, but managed to write up a script that automates some horrific process that a colle
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by ludicity 4y ago
Thank you for the insight on this. It's true, I know that some non-profits that are good. Over Christmas, I had the privilege of spending time with an incredibly smart person that that set up a successful non-profit helping out healthc
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Most data work seems fundamentally worthless(ludic.mataroa.blog)
605 points by ludicity 4y ago|310 comments
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by ludicity 4y ago
To respond to some concerns from marginalia_nu, I've spoken to Guzey once remotely and keep up with his writing from time to time. He is certainly not one to Gish Gallop someone, and generally I've been impressed by his forthright
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by ludicity 4y ago
I have a friend that got into web development in Malaysia without a degree. He accomplished this by networking aggressively and reaching out to everyone he knew to let them know he was looking for work. It took a few months, though this was
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by ludicity 4y ago
He popped into my mind at random last night, and I remember thinking "It's been so long since he uploaded anything" and being hit by a little bit of dread. My friends going back as far as high school and I are extremely sadde